Egg-tester.



W. D BIXLER.

EGG TESTER. APPLICATION FILED MAY 13, 1912.`

` Patented .00Ay 22, 1912.

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UNITED srarns PATENT orrioii.

VVLLIAMl D. BIXLER, 0F WORTH, TEXAS, ASSIGNQR "0F ONE-lALF TO WILLIAM ASQHMIDT, 0F FORT WORTH, i

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Appiication ered may is, 1912.' serial N'. 696,922.

'the object is to provide asimple device by which eggs can bepractically tested at great speed and which is portable and always readyfor use.

The invention is particularly useful for carrying on vehicles andotherwise. The

eggs are tested by electric light which 'is furnished automatically asthe egg is put in place for testing-andonly one hand is required fortesting the egg. Consequently both hands can be used in testing theeggs.

The device is so simple and inexpensive that users oit eggs well as eggchandlers can aord to keep siich tester. Y

The device can be lsed' either with current of electricity vfurnishedfrom some source of power or itcan be equipped with a battery forfurnishing the electricity.

Other objects and advantages will be fully explained in the followingdescription and the invent-ion will be` more 4particuhrrly pdinted outin. the claims.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings which forni a part of thisapplication. l.

. Figure 1 isa front elevation and The testeris provided with a smallAor 'large rectangular case l which is provided with a door l0 andsuitable lfastening de vices 1l. The door is for convenience in ad"3usting cells Zand 3 for making a battery.

The cells may be held in place by blocks 5 attached to the inside of thecasing. A semielliptical reiectdrG-is attached to the interior of thecasing opposite 1an opening through the front of the casing. The re.Hector 6 should be of sucli'coiitour' that it will receive the end of anegg. The-'ree torterminates with a socketA for receiving an incandescentelectric lamp il( The retlector is of metal 'or some conductingmaterial. A spring contact 7 rests against the'k end of Fig. 2'

the metal socket and is attached to the interior of the casing. Thecells 2 and 3 are electrically connected by a suitable wire. The ,cell 2is electrically connected to a spring 8 and a contact 9 is connected tothe spring 8. The cell 3 is electrically connected to the spring contact7 by a suitable wire. By reason of the connection of the contact 9 withthe spring 8,. the contact 9 is yielding and when the end of an egg isplaced in the reflector 6, the contact 9 will be pressed down againstthe reiector 6 and thus closes a circuit so that the egg can be tested.Packing may be placed about the cells to hold the saine in place.

light may he furnished from othersources than from the cells shown inthe casing. It

is also apparent: that the means for testing eggs can be duplicatedinthe same casing without departing from my invention. What I claim,is,-

1. An' egg testing device comprising acasing,a battery housed in saidcasing, a

'reflector mounted within said casing, said tric lamp in said reflectorconnected in said circuit.

2. An egg tester comprising a c`as`ing-hav ing an opening thereinto, aVEAmetallic redec-A tor mounted in said casing around said open-4 ing,an electric circuit connected with said retiector, a springcontaetconriected to the other arm of said circuit and st'anding in thepath of eggs to be inserted inf-said reflector and adapted to be pressedagainst said retiector when an egg is thrust into said reflector, and anincandescent'globe in said reflector included in said circuit.

3. An e g testing device comprising a reflector o conducting materialand adaptedto receive the end of an egg, an electric circuit, one arm ofwhich is connected tosaid redactor, a spring contact connected to the'Patented Get. 22, 1912. v

It is apparent that the current for th 7 other arm. of. said circuit andstanding in the path' of eggs to be inserted in said repressed againstwhen thrust into the circuit, and `an incandescent lamp mounted in saidreector and connected in said circuit.

iector and adapted to be said reflector by an egg said Jreiieetor forclosing Copies of this patent may be obtained for .the presence of twowitnesses,

of May, 1912.

Witnesses:

v A. L. JACKSON,

J. W. S'rn'r.

Washington, D. C.

In testimony whereof, I set my WILLIAM D.

hand in this 3rd day BIXLER.

ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patenti.

